Noted Highway Rumble Strip Steven King Gets Punked by Comedians Into Thinking He's On the Phone With Zelenskyy; Winds Up Praising Ukrainian N@zi Stephan Bandera

Questions have resurfaced about the mighty piles of cocaine Steven King snorted from the 70s through the 90s.

Oh, Steven King got his stupid ass run over on the highway in the early 2000s (IIRC). That's why I'm calling him a rumble strip, at Aetius' suggestion.

There's an update to this story.

First, the video:

Stephen King was pranked by two Russians who tricked him into believing he was on a call with Zelensky. On the call, he claims that Ukrainian Holocaust architect Stepan Bandera was a great man whose murder of Jews was just a slight flaw worth overlooking. pic.twitter.com/jA4M2RX4c0
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 19, 2022

Yesterday, he denied this ever happened-- despite there being video of the call.

Stephen King was prank called by Vovan and Lexus. They asked him what he thinks of Bandera.

His answer „I think Bandera was a great man“

Pure crap. Troll shit. No truth to it.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 20, 2022

But... it did happen.

I can hear your words and see your lips moving to match them: "On the whole, Bandera is a great man," you say.

The comedians even explained to King that Bandera had a small little tiny problem of maybe executing some Jewish people for the N@zis, so King knew what he was excusing, and who he was calling "a great man."

And who he was likening to "Washington and Jefferson"!

Ой, как неудобно получилось.. pic.twitter.com/MCoMzzdTg8
— Циничный адвокат (@addvo) July 21, 2022

What's he claiming -- deep fake?

Fun: We Hate Movies' rip on the awful movie Dreamcatcher -- made from one of Steven King's most wretchedly stupid, first-draft turd novels -- is a hell of a lot of fun.

You don't need to have seen the movie. I've only seen ten minutes here-and-there of it myself. I know the movie just from this podcast.

Posted by: Ace at 05:15 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Howdy!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2022 04:15 PM (ada2f)

2 First!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 21, 2022 04:15 PM (b2nrj)

3 Otters dutifully called

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2022 04:16 PM (ada2f)

4 Dean Koontz is a better writer.

Posted by: huerfano at July 21, 2022 04:16 PM (dTFZY)

5 You know who else was a great man?

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:17 PM (UWr3n)

6 i could never take steven king, I could only even finish two of his books (misery, the one with Jack nicholson)

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:17 PM (B3oWe)

7 Noooooo! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:17 PM (tQL7r)

8 Wish that van driver had been better at handling a moving vehicle.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:17 PM (2oHWb)

9 It's possible he was hacked.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (UWr3n)

10 Maybe King thought they said Antonio Banderas.

Antonio Banderas is a great man. He was perfectly cast in The Mask of Zorro.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (guGkK)

11 Whoa. Stephen King has , umm, not aged well. Is that really him? How old is he?

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (tQL7r)

12 Yep I finished Misery and then got about 50 pages into The Stand before I was donezo.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:19 PM (UWr3n)

13 You know, you can enjoy reading pop literature like Stevie poots out, and still acknowledge that the guy isn't at all bright.

Posted by: William F. "Buck" Dharma at July 21, 2022 04:19 PM (oedLL)

14 5 You know who else was a great man?

well, if you take "great" to mean large...

Posted by: hermann goering at July 21, 2022 04:19 PM (sGtp+)

15 I'm sure the real Zelensky loses a lot of sleep wondering what Stephen King thinks of Ukrainian history.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 04:19 PM (906pl)

16 What a scumbag.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (U2p+3)

17 Stephen King's next horror movie will be about a woman with a big pimple on her back that never goes away even though it is widely featured in an internet ad.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (lf83v)

18 Stephen King has been turned into an old, bitter drunk. He hates the shitters.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (Qhnrt)

19 There is something about old senile democrats

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (Irn0L)

20 Thought this fucker croaked last year. I am disappoint.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (BFigT)

21 Its a good thing those Russian pranksters weren't found in the Capitol while duping King.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (TNyrE)

22
9 It's possible he was hacked.
Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (UWr3n

Like he's a robot with robot code and someone forced him to sit in front of a camera and say Heil Hitler?

Sure. Anything is possible.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:20 PM (2oHWb)

23 Glad I've never liked this reprobate's work. Now I have a moral reason to dislike him in addition to disliking his crappy work.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (N1tpc)

24 I’ve thought for a very long time that king is garbage.

Also I could listen to Antonio banderas read a phone book.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (JLff9)

25 He wrote the Stand By Me movie story where a bunch of boys go to see a dead body.

King's brilliant title, "The Body"

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (UuD2k)

26 Sad. I've never read a single Stephen King book, nor watched a movie based on the same.

Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (6eRlp)

27 "What's he claiming -- deep fake?"

Yes. Obviously Putin has deployed a battalion of 300lb Russian hackors whose sole purpose is to find enemies of Putin and Drumpf and make them look bad on the interwebs.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (Rl7KJ)

28 paper back writer... paper back WRITER!

pay.. per... back... rye... ter...

Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (lV155)

29 I'm 1400 pages into a novel about a cursed oven mitt.

Posted by: Steven King at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (B3oWe)

30 Whoa. Stephen King has , umm, not aged well. Is that really him? How old is he?
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (tQL7r)

He always looked like a Brussels sprout.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (xhaym)

31 Maximum Overdrive abides.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (4I/2K)

32 Maybe King thought they said Antonio Banderas.

Antonio Banderas is a great man. He was perfectly cast in The Mask of Zorro.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (guGkK)

Indeed. Also as Puss in Boots.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (N1tpc)

33 well, if you take "great" to mean large...
Posted by: hermann goering at July 21, 2022

Hmm, great. Large. GK Chesterton? He was kind of a big guy.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (tQL7r)

34 6 i could never take steven king, I could only even finish two of his books (misery, the one with Jack nicholson)
Posted by: ace

That was The Shining

Salem's Lot was good. So was The Stand.
And Carrie.

He wrote some good horror. That doesn't mean his opinion matters. He writes make believe, ffs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (U2p+3)

35 Vovan and Lexus with the Morning Zoo here on KRAP in Samara!

Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (vd8XM)

36 Compared to Stalin?
Compared to Hitler?

Bandera was a two bit piker.
Yes he killed thousands of Jews, Poles, Russians and Germans. Most of them were trying to kill his Ukrainians first. Central Europe was a screwed up mess for centuries with revolts, famines, pogroms, and wars.

After 70 years of PAX Americana, it is reverting to form.

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (Z32m1)

37 Dean Koontz v Steven King is a tallest midget battle. Having said that Koontz have nothing close to Salem's Lot or The Stand.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (DhZYE)

38
Time to move on and get back to the important work of screaming at Trump and calling him a Nazi.

Posted by: Auspex at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (j4U/Z)

39 He looks awful.

And awfully stupid.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (DcKNO)

40 26 Sad. I've never read a single Stephen King book, nor watched a movie based on the same.
Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM (6eRlp)

You've never seen The Shawshank Redemption, then? It's probably the Steven King movie that most people (like me) have seen but never knew was based on anything he wrote.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (/xqYi)

41 It is amusing to see how the Neo-NAZIs in the Uke military/government went from Neo-NAZIs to just uh, misunderstood nationalists (as if the FNM is normally ok with that) as soon as Biden's controllers told them to.

This doesn't mean all of the Uke are Neo-NAZIs but...some are. And until 2022 that made them beyond the pale according the the FNM, the Democrats, and all of our betters.

Oh, the guy that founded the Azov battalion tried to get a law passed to *execute* anyone opposed to the Uke side of the 2014 war *after* the war was over.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (ESjRY)

42 like a Brussels sprout.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:21

Yikes. That's extremely unfortunate. Always, huh? Must have been a baby only his momma could love.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (tQL7r)

43 I could never stand that look on his face.

Posted by: dartist at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (+ya+t)

44 11 Whoa. Stephen King has , umm, not aged well. Is that really him? How old is he?
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (tQL7r)

74 years old.

Cocaine and hard drinking (both King's co-authors) do hell on a body.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Rl7KJ)

45 Show of hands....who thinks steven king is a washed up lying writer?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (bVYXr)

46 I like some of King's novels. Sue me.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Qhnrt)

47 In breaking news about another world-famous author, Michelle Obama's latest book "The Light We Carry", which will shine a light on herself, her dreams, her hopes for the planet, and insights “on navigating an increasingly stressful world" will be out this fall.

Mark your calendars now!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (a3Q+t)

48 Never read anything he wrote and not about to start anytime soon. I am not surprised that he got pranked, his ego is so big now that he just expects the world to come fawning to him. This affliction is suffered by most of the left in America.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (nvlRQ)

49 Central Europe was a screwed up mess for centuries with revolts, famines, pogroms, and wars.

Which was part of the whole idea behind giving ethnic minorities independence or at least autonomy.

Like the Russians in Donbas...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (ESjRY)

50 I hate these pranks.

(and what does "noted highway breakdown lane" imply? He is covered in oil and used condoms? The state sprays for weed control twice a year? I don't get it.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Tq0rn)

51 24 I’ve thought for a very long time that king is garbage.

Also I could listen to Antonio banderas read a phone book.

not me. i once had a nightmare that was sung by antonio banderas. *shudder*

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (sGtp+)

52 This is just sad. But in a not sad way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (dNqv+)

53 the "We Hate Movies" guys did a good podcast ripping on Dreamcatcher. A joke they kept making over and over was that Steven King is so loaded on coke and on arrogance that he thinks every thought he has is gold, so no matter how stupid it is, it goes right into the book with no second draft and actually not even a second thought.

"Clickety-clack!" they keep saying, meaning the sound of his never-stopping typewriter, typing one stupid scene after another.

Posted by: Steven King at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (B3oWe)

54 Pure crap. Troll shit. No truth to it.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 20, 2022

----

Talks like a fag.

Posted by: Dr. Lexus at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (Wg1SU)

55 Pathetic?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (dNqv+)

56 It didnt happen, see the official transcript.

And stop mocking his stutter.

Posted by: White House records keepers. at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (HVuiX)

57 . That doesn't mean his opinion matters. He writes make believe, ffs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (U2p+3)

Doesn't stop "journalists" from thinking their opinion matters.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (gJvhL)

58 Alvin, with help from the Chipmunks, invites Stephen King to hit Alvin with his best shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTW-VzXJEU

Posted by: Never underestimate Joe's ability at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (e/gaB)

59 >>>(and what does "noted highway breakdown lane" imply? He is covered in oil and used condoms? The state sprays for weed control twice a year? I don't get it.)

some dude ran him over on the highway, treating him like a breakdown lane

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (B3oWe)

60 Dean Koontz v Steven King is a tallest midget battle. Having said that Koontz have nothing close to Salem's Lot or The Stand.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at July 21, 2022 04:22 PM (DhZYE)

Steven King is a pimp. F. Paul Wilson would have him hanging from from a beam by his heels, skinned and gutted, ready to cool out for butchering, and described it clearly with well written and grammatical prose.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (xhaym)

61 (and what does "noted highway breakdown lane" imply? He is covered in oil and used condoms? The state sprays for weed control twice a year? I don't get it.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Tq0rn)

I was wondering as well. Didn't he get hit by a car? Maybe that's it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (dNqv+)

62 46 I like some of King's novels. Sue me.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Qhnrt)

People like all sorts of crap. De gustibus non est disputantem.

You are free to like your crap and I'm free to like mine.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (N1tpc)

63 I like some of King's novels. Sue me.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons

OK. I need your name, address and credit card numbers. Thanks.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (peIP9)

64 He was pretty good as an author until the Stand. It was a monstrous book that just rambled way too long.

Carrie, Pet Cemetary, cujo, shining, all good books.

He is walking proof that liberalism is an infectious disease that rots your soul and turns your face into a turnip.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (2oHWb)

65 Okay, I did watch about 2/3 of the Shining. Jack Nicholson chasing Shelley Duvall around the hotel with an ax. "Heeere's Johnny!". That was funny.

Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (6eRlp)

66 Maybe King and Howard Stern can run together for president in 2024. A unity ticket of washed-up, rabidly out of touch white elitist men. Sounds like a perfect fit for the Dem Party.

Posted by: Political Moron at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (JCZqz)

67 "I saw the mediocre minds of my generation destroyed by wokeness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the affluent white suburbs at dawn looking for a Starbucks, caffeinated Karens burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the HOA machinery."

Posted by: aelfheld at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (Zy9Yy)

68 Show of hands....who thinks steven king is a washed up lying writer?
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (bVYXr)

(raises hand)

His early stuff was great. Then, fast forward to turds like Cell and it all falls apart.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (ZSK0i)

69 *Bandera defenders are priceless , then ones on this thread that is, what beautiful contortions , gutta-percha would be jealous.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:27 PM (P1Q45)

70 King Harvey >> Stephen King

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 21, 2022 04:27 PM (lf83v)

71 some dude ran him over on the highway, treating him like a breakdown lane
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (B3oWe)

Ahh, ace brings clarity.

Maybe 'Noted Rumble Strip writer'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:27 PM (dNqv+)

72 It was Putin, he gets everyone eventually.

Posted by: Stephen King, wirter, ex-walker at July 21, 2022 04:27 PM (peIP9)

73 Did Stephan wear a cool uniform that matched his cool name? That might be why King licked him?

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2022 04:27 PM (gktX6)

74 F. Paul Wilson would have him hanging from from a beam by his heels, skinned and gutted, ready to cool out for butchering, and described it clearly with well written and grammatical prose.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (xhaym)
---
Yep. Love F. Paul Wilson's works, especially Repairman Jack. That series is just bonkers, but crazy awesome.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (K5n5d)

75 Leftists are idiots

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (2JoB8)

76 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Tq0rn)

He was hit by a car

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (epFyj)

77 Misery

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (zSyrn)

78 You've never seen The Shawshank Redemption, then? It's probably the Steven King movie that most people (like me) have seen but never knew was based on anything he wrote.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (/xqYi)

That movie has become the basis of a power-struggle between my oldest daughter and me. I never saw it nor was I ever much interested. When she found out, she insisted that I've GOTTA see it, and nags excessively. In order to preserve my autonomy I have no choice but to dig in my heals and resist.

(We have the same fight about The Lion King.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (906pl)

79 65 Okay, I did watch about 2/3 of the Shining. Jack Nicholson chasing Shelley Duvall around the hotel with an ax. "Heeere's Johnny!". That was funny.

my best friend in high school made me read the book. claimed it was amazing. i thought it was meh.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (sGtp+)

80 He always looks like a Brussels sprout.

----------------

Kindltot wins this thread.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (nvlRQ)

81 Maybe just 'Noted rumble strip Steven King...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (dNqv+)

82 King could never finish a horror story, at least the few I read years ago. He’d just throw in the towel and call it a day.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 21, 2022 04:29 PM (JLff9)

83 And washed up liberals who no one cares about anymore turn to twitter to spew their vile for likes and uptwinkles.

See Bette Midler, Cher, King, that fat guy from Archie Bunker.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:29 PM (2oHWb)

84 i put a link in for the We Hate Movies rip on Dreamcatcher.

clickety-clack!

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:29 PM (B3oWe)

85 Blue and Yellow Clown nose ON!

Blue and Yellow Clown nose OFF!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2022 04:29 PM (oHd/0)

86 my best friend in high school made me read the book. claimed it was amazing. i thought it was meh.
Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (sGtp+)

To be honest, that is how I see a lot of King novels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:29 PM (dNqv+)

87 Next thing you know, King will be all groomer and writing about underage gangbangs....oh, wait.

Posted by: Bete at July 21, 2022 04:30 PM (HVuiX)

88 83 And washed up liberals who no one cares about anymore turn to twitter to spew their vile for likes and uptwinkles.

See Bette Midler, Cher, King, that fat guy from Archie Bunker.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:29 PM (2oHWb)

Mark Hamill. George Takei.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:30 PM (dNqv+)

89 Chris Wallace is going to kick him out of the Withered Old Lesbians Club.

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (dwzrA)

90 Leftist elites: We have no right to intervene in Iraq just because Saddam is killing our allies and tried to kill a US president.

Also leftist elites: If you don't support giving all our money to Ukraine you want Putin to rule the world!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (ESjRY)

91 That doofus who held the radio over his head as he stalked some girl.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (2oHWb)

92 I imagine Stephen king has been a leftist for a long time and he's isolated from how economics affect many people because he's so wealthy. However, the car running into him gave his body a beating and he's now about 75. He could have residual problems and maybe he's just a cranky old man now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (PrR4G)

93 Stephen King praising Nazis...again.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

94 Drinker Open Bar on right now. Looks like a good panel.

https://tinyurl.com/m2d7jmhy

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (dNqv+)

95 "Here, hold my dick." -- Adam Schitt

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (nSg+p)

96 "I saw the mediocre minds of my generation destroyed by wokeness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the affluent white suburbs at dawn looking for a Starbucks, caffeinated Karens burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the HOA machinery."
Posted by: aelfheld at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (Zy9Yy)

I like your version better than Alan Ginsberg's.
It makes me Howl

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (xhaym)

97 Most deepfakes seem to need either a ton of preexisting footage, or they need to face map someone and overlay your face. Looking at King's face, what the fuck could they have face mapped him too? A bag of cheese left out in the summer sun?

Posted by: Rbastid at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (8WLxa)

98 I like some of the movies based on his books but that's not a genre I read. I did read his book The Running Man under his pseudonym Richard Bachman

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (epFyj)

99 So... Question.

A quick online search of this guy (who I hadn't heard of before) says he was arrested by the Nazis following their invasion of Ukraine because he declared himself and his organization the head of an independent Ukraine that would cooperate with Nazi Germany. So he essentially spent from the start of Barbarossa until 1944 in a German prison. Then the Nazis hauled him out to send him back into Ukraine (which the Soviets had retaken that summer) to operate behind Soviet lines as a partisan leader.

My question is -

When did this guy have an opportunity to round up Jews for the Nazis? Does anyone know enough about this guy to help me out?

Posted by: junior at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (Feb39)

100 I thought Dreamcatcher had too many scenes about the ass and ass related issues.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (peIP9)

101 Isn't The Green Mile based on King novel?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (VdGjU)

102 some dude ran him over on the highway, treating him like a breakdown lane
Posted by: ace

Thank you.

Please don't dumb down the jokes based on such feedback though. Or the cruelty.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (Tq0rn)

103 91 That doofus who held the radio over his head as he stalked some girl.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (2oHWb)

Hmmm, Cusack. I like Grosse Point Black. Con Air. And that's about it...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (dNqv+)

104 >>> I thought Dreamcatcher had too many scenes about the ass and ass related issues.

just a few too many, really

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (B3oWe)

105 Look at his stupid Ukraine hat.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (DcKNO)

106 The only King book worth reading is The Stand.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (WmGrA)

107
Mark Hamill. George Takei.

It is amazing to see how Hamill willing participated in the emascualtion of the one movie character everyone knew him for.

It would be like Orwell writing 1984 part 2 that just featured Winston getting pegged by Julia while talking about sandwiches.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (ESjRY)

108 I imagine Stephen king has been a leftist for a long time and he's isolated from how economics affect many people because he's so wealthy. However, the car running into him gave his body a beating and he's now about 75. He could have residual problems and maybe he's just a cranky old man now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 04:31 PM (PrR4G)

---------

He's no Keith Doberman.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (nSg+p)

109 You know Apt Pupil showed King's Nazi's curiosity early on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

110 His book about traveling back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination was one of the grandest fusterclucks of narrative-unraveling and idiotic confirmation bias that I've ever read. If I recall correctly, the long string of consequences that derived from Kennedy not getting his head blown off culminated in Hillary never getting to be president. Result: world in chaos. It was fascinating the way a mile-long train of blazing dumpsters plowing through a day care is fascinating.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (+R5dc)

111 Yesterday, he denied this ever happened-- despite there being video of the call.
++++
You didn't see that. You didn't hear that. You're lying to yourself.

Posted by: Stephen King at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (WWh8n)

112
His early stuff was great. Then, fast forward to turds like Cell and it all falls apart.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (ZSK0i)

I think he quit writing for the joy of writing with Under the Dome. That's when I realized he was just phoning it in for a paycheck.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (Qhnrt)

113 I did better work in a Baltimore gutter.

Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (cY9wR)

114 Possible that portion has been scrubbed or revised?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (epFyj)

115 96 "I saw the mediocre minds of my generation destroyed by wokeness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the affluent white suburbs at dawn looking for a Starbucks, caffeinated Karens burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the HOA machinery."
Posted by: aelfheld at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (Zy9Yy)

I like your version better than Alan Ginsberg's.
It makes me Howl
Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (xhaym)

The only place I know the dude from is Lilek's podcast.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (dNqv+)

116 I'm 1400 pages into a novel about a cursed oven mitt.
Posted by: Steven King

Let me guess. At the end, we find out that the big bad monster is a space alien.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (AECG4)

117 Quidditch is now officially Quadball. Please update your spellcheckers and style guides now.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (a3Q+t)

118 Steven King mouths off about a lot of stuff he doesn't know and because he's rich and wrote popular books people think he knows what he's talking about. Its...

I have written three books and as soon as people hear I have published three stories, they treat me differently, I can see and hear the respect in their voice. Its horsecrap. I am not smarter or more educated for having written books. But that's the attitude; well you wrote and published books you must be an academic, a scholar, a wise man.

Guys like King start believing that crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:34 PM (Ivdso)

119 The only King book worth reading is The Stand.

Posted by: Joe Mama

Unfortunately, something Stephen has a tough time doing nowadays.

#RoadRage

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2022 04:34 PM (peIP9)

120 104 >>> I thought Dreamcatcher had too many scenes about the ass and ass related issues.

just a few too many, really
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:32 PM (B3oWe)

Well, you are a Demi Rose fan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:34 PM (dNqv+)

121 some dude ran him over on the highway, treating him like a breakdown lane

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (B3oWe)

We would have also accepted Crash Test Dummy.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:34 PM (W2PeM)

122
Noted Lesbian Folk Singer Lich Steven King...

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:34 PM (B3oWe)

123 Questions have resurfaced about the mighty piles of cocaine Steven King snorted from the 70s through the 90s.

--------

"Here, hold my resurfaced nose." -- Don Henley

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (nSg+p)

124 (We have the same fight about The Lion King.)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 04:28 PM (906pl)

Do yourself a favor and find Jordan Peterson's lecture on the Lion King and the myth of the return of the rightful heir, and how it is reflects 4000 years of myth.
Then watch the cartoon, it will make it much better.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (xhaym)

125 Also, it's my ignorance, but I didn't even know who Stephan Bandera was until I looked him up, so maybe King didn't know his history either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (PrR4G)

126 Mary Ann is on Wagon Train. Gosh she was cute.

What were we talking about?

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (sn5EN)

127 30 Whoa. Stephen King has , umm, not aged well. Is that really him? How old is he?
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:18 PM (tQL7r)

He always looked like a Brussels sprout.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:21 PM

A brussel sprout? I think someone else once mentioned he looked like Roz from Monster's Inc.

https://tinyurl.com/4n6r6e9y

Posted by: Political Moron at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (JCZqz)

128 For the record I really liked some of the scene in It. I mean the clown stuff was boring but those kids...well, let's just say I needed a while box of kleenex!

Posted by: Some Preddittor at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (ESjRY)

129 109 You know Apt Pupil showed King's Nazi's curiosity early on.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

Never read the book. The movie... had bits that were interesting, but it also completely missed the mark.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (dNqv+)

130 You've never seen The Shawshank Redemption, then? It's probably the Steven King movie that most people (like me) have seen but never knew was based on anything he wrote.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (/xqYi)

I watched probably half of it. I must have missed the opening and ending credits.

Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:35 PM (6eRlp)

131 I wonder of King is gonna backpedal somehow. Uke propaganda is what is being disseminated to the public . That is why no one have either heard of Bandera, or accept their narrative that somehow his murderous, disgusting life is worthy of praise . I mean , one man's terrorist is another man's hero . As Palis would have you believe and as someone tried to press , above.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:36 PM (P1Q45)

132 I guess I don't "get" Russian humor. How anyone would find punking Steven King as "funny" is beyond me. Stupid, yes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 21, 2022 04:36 PM (BFigT)

133 18 Stephen King has been turned into an old, bitter drunk. He hates the shitters.

Is this a reference to his novel, "Christine"?

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 21, 2022 04:36 PM (zSyrn)

134 Color me stupid gor not knowing who Bandera was

Posted by: Paul at July 21, 2022 04:36 PM (Aa1f6)

135 O/T: Is this a thing?

Fauci, Biden officials served subpoenas in lawsuit over collusion to suppress free speech

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yr5vvskz

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (DTX3h)

136 I'm surprised Ace hasn't posted something on the Capitol Police crying bullshit over the DC DA reason for dropping charges.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (KwBmy)

137 >>>You've never seen The Shawshank Redemption, then? It's probably the Steven King movie that most people (like me) have seen but never knew was based on anything he wrote.

i read it, it was bleh. I mean, it was nothing. This happened this happened this happened. I felt nothing.

I forgot i read that. It's only like 120 pages. It's a true mercy, given Steven King's usual page count.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (B3oWe)

138 Good Stephen King books:
Night Shift
Different Seasons (or 3/4 of it)
The Stand
Carrie
Christine
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
The Shining
Half of IT
Needful Things

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

139 >>>'m surprised Ace hasn't posted something on the Capitol Police crying bullshit over the DC DA reason for dropping charges.

i mean to.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (B3oWe)

140 The Election Integrity Partnership was formed in late 2020. It was initially funded by the government (CISA) and Stanford University to address any expected complaints in the upcoming election. A report created by the EIP shared damning information on this group.

The initial idea for the Partnership came from four students that the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) funded to complete volunteer internships at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security. Responsibility for election information security is divided across government offices: CISA has authority to coordinate on cybersecurity issues related to the election, the FBI to investigate cyber incidents and enforce election laws, and intelligence agencies to monitor for foreign interference. Yet, no government agency in the United States has the explicit mandate to monitor and correct election mis- and disinformation.

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (RHGPo)

141 I barely remember Dreamcatcher at this point. But I only saw it years after it had been savaged in reviews. So when I saw it, it was not that bad. Low expectations can really help a mediocre film out.

By the way, Frank Luntz's pet name for Kevin McCarthy is Dreamcatcher. Small world.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (atBm9)

142 You've never seen The Shawshank Redemption, then? It's probably the Steven King movie that most people (like me) have seen but never knew was based on anything he wrote.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 21, 2022 04:23 PM (/xqYi)

I'm think it was a short story or novella.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (epFyj)

143 Is Dreamcatcher the one with poop aliens that are a metaphor for cancer or something and has a retarded Mark Wahlburg character save the day? (And no none of this is a joke)

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (ESjRY)

144 116 I'm 1400 pages into a novel about a cursed oven mitt.
Posted by: Steven King

Let me guess. At the end, we find out that the big bad monster is a space alien.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM

To defeat it, all the boys have to warm it up and fuck it first to become men, or something.

Posted by: Stephen King is a creepy MAP at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (JCZqz)

145 His early stuff was great. Then, fast forward to turds like Cell and it all falls apart.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 21, 2022 04:26 PM (ZSK0i)

I think he quit writing for the joy of writing with Under the Dome. That's when I realized he was just phoning it in for a paycheck.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:33 PM (Qhnrt)

That's Terrible! He must be a crass commercialist with no respect for his reputation!

Posted by: Tom Clancy at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (Z32m1)

146 Shawshank
The green mile
The usual suspects,...

movies that I f-cking hate.

And I can't understand why these are revered by so many as classics.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (Tq0rn)

147 And +1 to half of 'On Writing' which has good advice on self-editing if nothing else.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

148 You know Apt Pupil showed King's Nazi's curiosity early on.

Well he was raised WASP in Northeastern America, I would not at all be shocked if he was, shall we say, indifferent to the plight of the Jews.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (Ivdso)

149 His book about traveling back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination was one of the grandest fusterclucks
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer
____

My favorite part was in the book he said Oswald probably did act alone but Dallas was so anti-JFK with Birchers that it probably fed into it.

Texas was still solidly Democrat in those days.

Posted by: Victory at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (uMFis)

150 Being a natural curmudgeon, I recoiled from "the herd" early in my years. So, when half the damn High School was clutching a Steven King book in their grubby paws, those books went directly to my "not interested" list.

Same thing applied to "Seinfeld", "Friends" and many other teevee shows.

Opiates for the Masses are easily spotted, ripe for the ignoring. To quote some wag from a years past ONT: "I can't wait to not go to that concert!"

Besides, I can get the Cultural Clif's Notes on all of the above, just by reading AOS comments since 2004.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (tkOps)

151 My favorite two sentences in The Stand:

"There were worse things than crucifixion. There were teeth."

Posted by: Thrawn at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (Rl7KJ)

152 King probably thinks adolf was a great man.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (P1Q45)

153 You've never seen The Shawshank Redemption?

The trope where the criminals are noble, and the guards and warden are criminals?

The first and only time that gem has ever been trotted out.

Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (cY9wR)

154 Got my daily dose of cruelty to slake my bloodlust here.

Posted by: ballistic at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (oXNqT)

155 The usual suspects,...

movies that I f-cking hate.

And I can't understand why these are revered by so many as classics.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (Tq0rn)

I could write you an essay on why The Usual Suspects is great but I don't know if you'd want me to...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

156 The Usual Suspects has some great performances in it, but yeah I don't get why it is so revered, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (Ivdso)

157 Why'd they call Stephen King of all people? I can't remember the last time he wrote a good book or has really been remotely relevant.

Posted by: Surfperch at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (yPFdZ)

158 >>>143 Is Dreamcatcher the one with poop aliens that are a metaphor for cancer or something and has a retarded Mark Wahlburg character save the day? (And no none of this is a joke)

i think it's donnie wahlberg but that's basically right

and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (B3oWe)

159 Loved Keaton in Night Shift.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (peIP9)

160 A prolific and successful 75-year-old writer with the political maturity and judgment of a Swarthmore co-ed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (H8QX8)

161 ... Its horsecrap. I am not smarter or more educated for having written books. But that's the attitude; well you wrote and published books you must be an academic, a scholar, a wise man.

Guys like King start believing that crap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:34 PM (Ivdso)
++++
I can acknowledge that he knows way more about writing popular fiction than I do, and about the publishing industry. You know more than me about whatever you wrote about. I know more than you or King about what I wrote my book about. The Horde authors and certainly someone like King know a lot more about publishing than I do, since they have written more books and dealt with it more.

So Stephen King's advice on story, writing, publishing, etc. might be valuable. Outside of that sphere, it's just his opinion in other areas and it carries no more weight than anyone else's opinion and I might agree with it or not. He got trolled, but can't acknowledge that his ego got in the way and so he got rooked. That's the real problem. As you say, he appears to be drinking his own Kool-Aide.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (WWh8n)

162 135 O/T: Is this a thing?

Fauci, Biden officials served subpoenas in lawsuit over collusion to suppress free speech

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yr5vvskz
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM

It might be an actual event, but if you think anything will actually come of it, I have some bad news for you. You might want to sit down to hear it, though...

Posted by: Reality at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (JCZqz)

163 Ha! I see in the title King's legacy was upgraded to "rumble strip".

Posted by: Dr. Lexus at July 21, 2022 04:40 PM (Wg1SU)

164 And so in wanting to support the great narrative of the fighting Ukrainian people, somebody mentioned the Ukranian nationalist Bandera and not wanting to appear stupid-and on the cause de jour-support for Ukraine he said he thought Bandera was a great man without knowing about his ethnic cleansing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 04:40 PM (PrR4G)

165 Why'd they call Stephen King of all people? I c

Excellent question!

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:40 PM (P1Q45)

166 You know Apt Pupil showed King's Nazi's curiosity early on.

Well he was raised WASP in Northeastern America, I would not at all be shocked if he was, shall we say, indifferent to the plight of the Jews.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (Ivdso)

I'm pretty sure he's anti-Semtic. His depiction of Nazis was almost (or not almost) sexual.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:40 PM (xcxpd)

167 However, the car running into him gave his body a beating and he's now about 75. He could have residual problems and maybe he's just a cranky old man now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That's certainly understandable. Problems like that are life-long, chronic, and incredibly painful.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:40 PM (tQL7r)

168 i think it's donnie wahlberg but that's basically right

and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (B3oWe)

What the actual fuck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (dNqv+)

169 BREAKING:

President Joe Biden tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday morning, the White House revealed, just hours after returning from a trip to Massachusetts.

The White House said Biden, age 79, is only experiencing “very mild symptoms” and is fully vaccinated and boosted with four shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (RHGPo)

170 The Running Man was based off a Stephen King (Bachman Books) short story.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (OgrpQ)

171 He could have said, he is not familiar with Bandera.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (P1Q45)

172 A prolific and successful 75-year-old writer with the political maturity and judgment of a Swarthmore co-ed.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Now THIS is literature!!

Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (cY9wR)

173 132 I guess I don't "get" Russian humor. How anyone would find punking Steven King as "funny" is beyond me. Stupid, yes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 21, 2022 04:36 PM (BFigT)

IIRC, wasn't Schiff or some other dem congresscritter pranked by Russians claiming to be Ukrainians who had naked pictures of Trump or something like that?

Posted by: Thrawn at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (Rl7KJ)

174 Seinfeld is really funny, but its even better when you realize that its Jerry Seinfeld taking a huge crap on the attitudes and culture of New Yorkers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (Ivdso)

175 Geez, for Steven King's next novel, he should just write about his scary face. Aging has not been kind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (sVtYq)

176 and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (B3oWe)

What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (dNqv+)

I could make it work.

Posted by: Mel Brooks at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (guGkK)

177 The fact that the usual suspects like Soros took such a great interest in Ukraine was all I needed to know that something evil was afoot.

Of course there still way too many NeoCon Republicans that went along for the ride.

Posted by: Victory at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (uMFis)

178 Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 04:38 PM (cY9wR)

Thank you.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (sHRny)

179

and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses

Go on...

Posted by: Big Gay Anus at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (7DYli)

180 I was also amused that the monsters in The Mist are giant spiders and mosquitos.

Hmm...wonder how King might have come up with that writing a novel in an old house in Maine in the summer...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (ESjRY)

181 Seinfeld would have been banned today.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (P1Q45)

182 169 BREAKING:

President Joe Biden tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday morning, the White House revealed, just hours after returning from a trip to Massachusetts.

The White House said Biden, age 79, is only experiencing “very mild symptoms” and is fully vaccinated and boosted with four shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (RHGPo)

-----

Maybe the coronavirus can do us a solid...

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (KwBmy)

183 The FCC revealed last week that it'll cost $3.08 billion more than the $1.9 billion originally allocated to pay U.S. companies to ditch Huawei and ZTE.

My ZTE flip phone sure had a good camera
___________

Posted by: Braenyard at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (3kwLA)

184 The Ukraine drew a picture of a horsey with his crayons, see here's the horse, here's the sun, here's a tree and a red house. We hung it on the fridge we were so proud.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (44ww/)

185 Stephen King has been turned into an old, bitter drunk. He hates the shitters.

Is this a reference to his novel, "Christine"?
Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 21, 2022 04:36 PM (zSyrn)

Yes.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (Qhnrt)

186 I'm think it was a short story or novella.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:37 PM (epFyj)

---

His batting average for decent movies based on his shorter, non-horror stories is pretty good:

Shawshank, Green Mile, Stand By Me.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (+R5dc)

187 He's very successful. You can't argue with success.

You all want him to be Shakespeare or something, he just wants to make a lot of money. Don't criticize him for not living up to your expectations.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (Tq0rn)

188 The Running Man was based off a Stephen King (Bachman Books) short story.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (OgrpQ)
----
He's had a ton of his stories made into movies or television miniseries. Some of them are even pretty good or at least moderately entertaining. Helps when they hire decent actors, of course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (K5n5d)

189 Nein! After 76 years of hiding I've been outed by a stupid mistake on a phone call!

Posted by: Stefan von Koenig, Nazi War Criminal in hiding at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (yPFdZ)

190 You know who the Lefty authors are but we have to mostly guess who might be conservative. Was Tom Clancy a conservative ? I'm thinking Stephen Hunter might be.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (epFyj)

191 I can acknowledge that he knows way more about writing popular fiction than I do, and about the publishing industry. You know more than me about whatever you wrote about. I know more than you or King about what I wrote my book about. The Horde authors and certainly someone like King know a lot more about publishing than I do, since they have written more books and dealt with it more.

So Stephen King's advice on story, writing, publishing, etc. might be valuable. Outside of that sphere, it's just his opinion in other areas and it carries no more weight than anyone else's opinion and I might agree with it or not. He got trolled, but can't acknowledge that his ego got in the way and so he got rooked. That's the real problem. As you say, he appears to be drinking his own Kool-Aide.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Well said.

This is similar to my take on Howard Stern.

He knows radio, and knew his competition.

Outside of that, garbage person.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (cY9wR)

192 I could make it work.
Posted by: Mel Brooks at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (guGkK)

No, you wouldn't. The Beans scene in BS is great because it is one gag, they do it, then move on and do not dwell on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (dNqv+)

193 He's no Keith Doberman.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome

For which we can all be thankful.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (tQL7r)

194 The Running Man was based off a Stephen King (Bachman Books) short story.

Those were pretty good stories, and not subject to King's usual overwriting and padding.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (Ivdso)

195 I did like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Posted by: huerfano at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (dTFZY)

196 and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (B3oWe)

What's the name of the movie again?

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (sHRny)

197 Stephen King has been turned into an old, bitter drunk. He hates the shitters.

Is this a reference to his novel, "Christine"?

--

It has to be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (sVtYq)

198 Seinfeld would have been banned today.
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (P1Q45)

"He isn't wearing the ribbon!"

Yeah, banned.

Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (6eRlp)

199 "and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses"

Watermelon, ice cream, and beer will do that too.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (sn5EN)

200 Was Tom Clancy a conservative ?

Sorta, kinda, in the Bulwark kinda anti-Communist big business Trust the System way

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (Ivdso)

201 Shawshank was a good movie. Didn't speed bump write that?

Posted by: Ric Flair at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (2cfUo)

202 Read maybe 2 King books and not in last 30, more 40 years ago

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (2JoB8)

203 Why'd they call Stephen King of all people? I can't remember the last time he wrote a good book or has really been remotely relevant.
Posted by: Surfperch at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (yPFdZ)

They did not have Babs Streissand's phone number?

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (Z32m1)

204 190 You know who the Lefty authors are but we have to mostly guess who might be conservative. Was Tom Clancy a conservative ? I'm thinking Stephen Hunter might be.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (epFyj)

Robert Jordan. Probably Jim Butcher. Larry Corriea wears it on his sleeve. I am guessing Brandon Sanderson leans that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (dNqv+)

205 Ukrainian Nazis and Nazi Nazis are totally different you guys.

- Steven King

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (FvIzV)

206 Seinfeld would have been banned today.
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (P1Q45)
++++
It's funny. This is probably right, and that's really saying something because Seinfeld is pretty milquetoast.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (WWh8n)

207 Florence King >>> Stephen King

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (906pl)

208 "and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses"

Eh. I'm 29. 20 minutes of farting and shitting myself is very relatable television.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (ppBhU)

209 Stephen King's collection of short stories were pretty good - Night Shift. But his novels are overly long and boring IMHO

Posted by: InCali at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (jZOLv)

210 Why'd they call Stephen King of all people? I can't remember the last time he wrote a good book or has really been remotely relevant.
Posted by: Surfperch at July 21, 2022 04:39 PM (yPFdZ)
++++
Maybe because he's a big name and they figured it would work on him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (WWh8n)

211 Misery was a good movie.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (epFyj)

212 "Will Bannon go to jail?!!!" screams today's laughable MSNBC headline, as their collective breasts swell. Well, normally I would say "as their collective penis' swell" but there hasn't been any testosterone in the media in 50 years or more. Its been all Victorian age hysterics over there since the 1980's.

If you read the article, poorly written as they always are, you realize that, no, Bannon is not getting sent to Attica - only the toddlers over at MSNBC would send him there. Its just weird and embarrassing to see people in their 30's behavior like dysfunctional 9 year olds this way. Society has no mature intellectual or media class anymore.

Posted by: Boswell at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (+Cgut)

213 The White House said Biden, age 79, is only experiencing “very mild symptoms”

-
Like his very mild dementia symptoms.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (FVME7)

214 "and there's a 20 minute sequence where people are farting and then shitting their guts out because they have alien parasites up their asses"

Sounds like the day after a White Castle run (where they threw in some more of the steamed onions.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (dNqv+)

215 Tom Clancy was a conservative, he did ads for the NRA.

He didn't support the War in Iraq, and back then you were a Left Winger if you didnt line up behind Dubya and the New World Order.

Posted by: Victory at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (uMFis)

216 207 Florence King >>> Stephen King
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (906pl)

Oh, hell yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (dNqv+)

217 From the previous thread, Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is a stupid song anyway and nothing to do with shooting with firearms. She's an idiot.

Posted by: Ciampino - never heard that song at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (qfLjt)

218 I don't know anything about the man personally but there certainly wasn't much commie bullshit to be found in Elmore Leonard. In fact quite the opposite.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (sHRny)

219 Stephen King's collection of short stories were pretty good - Night Shift. But his novels are overly long and boring IMHO
Posted by: InCali at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (jZOLv)
++++
There were some gems in "Nightmares and Dreamscapes," too. "Dolan's Cadillac" and the one about rats in the old garment factory were ones I enjoyed. I always thought "Dolan's Cadillac" would have made a good movie. It was made into a movie, but I hear it wasn't good.
C'est la vie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (WWh8n)

220 @200

The Cold War was a gold mine of material for him. We're trying desperately to get a new Cold War going, but I'm afraid we are going to be the empire that gets bankrupted this time.

Posted by: Dr. Lexus at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (Wg1SU)

221 Larry Correia is pretty conservative, I used to talk to him on Facebook (it was almost worth the crap that place is to get to talk to guys like him and Nick Searcy and Kate Upton).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (Ivdso)

222 Seinfeld would have been banned today.
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:42 PM (P1Q45)

"He isn't wearing the ribbon!"

Yeah, banned.
Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:44 PM (6eRlp)

Isn't he the guy telling fellow comedians to "Stay the Fuck Off University Campuses!!!"

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (Z32m1)

223 Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:45 PM (dNqv+

Probably and Guessing is what I was talking about.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (epFyj)

224 141 By the way, Frank Luntz's pet name for Kevin McCarthy is Dreamcatcher. Small world.

is typo. was supposed to be creamcatcher.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 21, 2022 04:48 PM (sGtp+)

225 It turns out solar panels lose efficiency if it's too hot. (Goes to Daily Caller)

https://tinyurl.com/37b4tc5z

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 21, 2022 04:48 PM (YynYJ)

226 I could write you an essay on why The Usual Suspects is great but I don't know if you'd want me to...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water a

Don't, I would wipe my ass with it.
(no offense to you.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:48 PM (Tq0rn)

227 Mighty Joe King > Florence King >>> Stephen King

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 21, 2022 04:48 PM (FVME7)

228 175 Geez, for Steven King's next novel, he should just write about his scary face. Aging has not been kind.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 21, 2022 04:41 PM (sVtYq)

He did write a short story about what a lie that time is. It was good.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:48 PM (Qhnrt)

229 Florence King >>> Stephen King
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (906pl)

The one must-read National Review columnist back in the day when I regularly read that magazine.

Posted by: mrp at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (6eRlp)

230
You all want him to be Shakespeare or something, he just wants to make a lot of money. Don't criticize him for not living up to your expectations.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 04:43 PM (Tq0rn)

I don't like his writing. I have a dim belief that horror should be something beyond being afraid and unable to find a way out.
That is the average life.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (xhaym)

231 217 From the previous thread, Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is a stupid song anyway and nothing to do with shooting with firearms. She's an idiot.

well, she doesn't want to start an insurrection...

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (sGtp+)

232 Best Family Guy scene - Brian is trying to find his birth mother, while driving around in Maine and runs over a guy accidentally. He exclaims "OMG, I just ran over Stephen King." The guy gets up and says "No, I'm Dean R. Koontz."

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (OgrpQ)

233 I mentioned I was rereading the Mars books by ERB. One thing I noted, he describes the Green Men of mars as communists (and not in a good way.) Considering this is 1912, I found that interesting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (dNqv+)

234 My favorite authors are the ones you can't really tell their politics because they write both arguments well and create interesting, and deep characters. What's Loren Estleman's politics? Who cares.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)

235 >You know Apt Pupil showed King's Nazi's curiosity early on.

Liberal-progressive obsession with race comes from being completely shamed and flipped.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (44ww/)

236 224 141 By the way, Frank Luntz's pet name for Kevin McCarthy is Dreamcatcher. Small world.

is typo. was supposed to be creamcatcher.

----
And Kevin's pet name for Frank is Dreamsicle.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (Wg1SU)

237 75 year old writer with the political maturity and judgment of a Swarthmore co-ed.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Is this not the story of the whole Democrat party?

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (tQL7r)

238 I did enjoy the movie "Needful Things".
The guy has made millions so I can't criticize his writing.

Posted by: Ciampino - a few SK stories are good at July 21, 2022 04:49 PM (qfLjt)

239 >>>The White House said Biden, age 79, is only experiencing “very mild symptoms” and is fully vaccinated and boosted with four shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Like I said what should really make them scared, isn't Joe dying, it's the neurological effects on a man that doesn't have 1/4 watt of cognition to spare.

"Neurological issues such as brain fog, memory loss, speech problems, and attention deficits plague up to 80% of COVID-19 patients."

Oh that and multiple boosters tend to be indicators of more serious illness for Omicron in older patients.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (T/vhV)

240 Jerry Seinfeld has morphed into a Grumpy Old Man in all the best ways. I can't say he's a moron but he has no patience for Wokeness or Political Correctness.

I actually like him now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (xcxpd)

241 He has the same first name as me okay! It's difficult to criticize a guy shares part of your name!

Posted by: Stephen King, making up excuses at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (yPFdZ)

242 Imagine being famous for writing horror novels. Then imagine getting a call from someone wanting to interview you about the Russia / Ukraine War. As a sensible person, you would think "why the hell would anybody care what I think on this subject?" But I suspect that King and so many people like him have such an inflated ego that this would never occur to him.

Posted by: PabloD at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (FP/Fv)

243 Don King > Stephen King

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (peIP9)

244 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

245 Larry Correia is pretty conservative, I used to talk to him on Facebook (it was almost worth the crap that place is to get to talk to guys like him and Nick Searcy and Kate Upton).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:47 PM (Ivdso)
---
Saying that Larry Correia is "pretty conservative" is like saying water is "pretty wet."

I've read his blog a bit and he's unleashed both barrels numerous times at Lefties so cruelly ace is a kind and cuddly bunny rabbit by comparison. It's awesome.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:51 PM (K5n5d)

246 It turns out solar panels lose efficiency if it's too hot. (Goes to Daily Caller)

Here comes the sun
doo-be doo doo
here comes the sun, and I say
we're all fucked.
lah-de-de-dah-de-dee dah

Posted by: zombie George Harrison at July 21, 2022 04:51 PM (cY9wR)

247 It turns out solar panels lose efficiency if it's too hot. (Goes to Daily Caller)

https://tinyurl.com/37b4tc5z
Posted by: Notsothoreau

lol, Perfect.

Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2022 04:51 PM (mn1Pi)

248 What I don't get is the arrogance of these assholes who can write well, or sing, or act...... and they think I give a shit about their opinions.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2022 04:51 PM (U2p+3)

249 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

How can you tell she sings calypso?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 04:52 PM (VdGjU)

250 The White House said Biden, age 79, is only experiencing “very mild symptoms” and is fully vaccinated and boosted with four shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
Posted by: SMOD

Right! I am so sure Joe's had the vaxx AND 4 boosters.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 04:52 PM (tQL7r)

251 https://is.gd/ePsCP6

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2022 04:52 PM (sn5EN)

252 a lot of the 'Mormon Mafia' of writers, from Orson Scott Card on down to Brent Weeks are pretty conservative. But some have some quirks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

253 ... "Neurological issues such as brain fog, memory loss, speech problems, and attention deficits plague up to 80% of COVID-19 patients." ...
Posted by: mikethemoose at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (T/vhV)
++++
I experienced that, as did several people I know who caught the 'Vid. Also happened to me with the flu. Being sick *sucks* and slows you down. I don't know of anyone who had this be a long-term problem, though. For me it cleared up about two days after the other symptoms cleared (about five days after getting sick). I dunno if other people have long-term trouble from that effect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:52 PM (WWh8n)

254 It turns out solar panels lose efficiency if it's too hot. (Goes to Daily Caller)

-
It's a Goldilocks alternative energy, will work if it's not too hot, or not too cold, but just right.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 21, 2022 04:52 PM (FVME7)

255 King made a mistake claiming that he NEVER SAID THAT, he would have been smarter to use the magic words "selectively edited" and "out of context". These terms are so powerful that they can instantly cloud the minds of the left and make them completely lose interest in a story and refuse to learn anything more about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:53 PM (Ivdso)

256 King despises Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, probably the best film adaptation of any of his books. Tells you everything you need to know about the narrow in which the guy should stay...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 21, 2022 04:53 PM (IY+he)

257 The guy has made millions so I can't criticize his writing.
Posted by: Ciampino - a few SK stories are good

Keep thinking that way.

Posted by: zombie PT Barnum at July 21, 2022 04:53 PM (cY9wR)

258 Jerry Seinfeld has morphed into a Grumpy Old Man in all the best ways. I can't say he's a moron but he has no patience for Wokeness or Political Correctness.

I actually like him now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
+++

I try not to care too much about celebrity politics because 99% of the time not mine. But I cant boycott all of it.

That being said, I think Seinfeld has been red pilled, but knows his stature would take a big hit if he came out as a conservative.

Posted by: Victory at July 21, 2022 04:53 PM (uMFis)

259 Dairy Queen > Stephen King

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 21, 2022 04:53 PM (WmGrA)

260 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

Oooh, dat ass. The rest of her is pretty choice too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

261 As a noted connoisseur of cheesy horror flicks, I likes me some Creepshow. I mean hey, its got Adrienne Barbeau.

Posted by: The Tall Man and his flying silver balls at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (kCHil)

262 It turns out solar panels lose efficiency if it's too hot. (Goes to Daily Caller)

https://tinyurl.com/37b4tc5z
Posted by: Notsothoreau

lol, Perfect.
Posted by: Infidel
+++
Solar is such a scam, its all based on how much subsidies we throw at it while jacking up everyone else's utility rates.

Posted by: Victory at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (uMFis)

263 I'm 1400 pages into a novel about a cursed oven mitt.

Posted by: Steven King

--------

Catcher of the Pie?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (FRbcJ)

264 The gaslighting is part of the kink.

Posted by: blaster at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (6TxNR)

265 What I don't get is the arrogance of these assholes who can write well, or sing, or act...... and they think I give a shit about their opinions.

Exactly, I write and you don't give a crap what I think about anything. That's the correct way to approach life; take things based on their merits, not the supposed quality of the person making the statement.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (Ivdso)

266 chicken a la king > Stephen King

Posted by: The Chicken at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (cY9wR)

267 today is past and
tomorrow is never more

Posted by: Braenyard at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (3kwLA)

268 King despises Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, probably the best film adaptation of any of his books. Tells you everything you need to know about the narrow in which the guy should stay...

I don't really blame King here. It's a good movie in many ways (despite horrible casting). But Kubrick is so into doing his own thing that he doesn't really adapt it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (ppBhU)

269 Catcher of the Pie?
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (FRbcJ)
++++
*snort*

Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (WWh8n)

270 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:51 PM (K5n5d)

Horror and Fantasy SciFi not what I read so I only know Correia from comments here and did not know about his Monster Hunter series. So yeah he is the anti - Stephen King .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (epFyj)

271 263 I'm 1400 pages into a novel about a cursed oven mitt.

Posted by: Steven King

--------

Catcher of the Pie?
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (FRbcJ)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (dNqv+)

272 If Senile Joe is just suffering mild symptoms why don't they just say he's not feeling well?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (VdGjU)

273 I'm 1400 pages into a novel about a cursed oven mitt.

Posted by: Steven King

--------

Catcher of the Pie?
Posted by: ShainS

* GOLFCLAP*

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (cY9wR)

274 Never got into King’s books. Always thought they were watered down crap compared to the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror I was reading at the time. And I read a lot. Not much time for that anymore, sadly. But I am working on my own book … sporadically. Lol.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (fhhF2)

275 Christine was the last Stephan King book I read. But, as a bookseller, I thought King was great! He has a really devoted following who will go so far as to buy his hardbacks. Hardback sales are really good sales. Profit percentage is the same as a mass market, but the numbers are much bigger.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 21, 2022 04:56 PM (H31K8)

276 On one hand, you have video and audio of a person praising Stepan Bandera.

On the other hand, you have the subject of the video claiming said video is fake. A person whose occupation is... *sounds of ruffled paper* ... writing fiction.

Going to need a lot more than King's words, of which there are likely millions that are already fictitious, to get over that burden of proof.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 21, 2022 04:56 PM (x8Ov3)

277 Jerry "The King" Lawler> Stephen King

woo

Posted by: Ric Flair at July 21, 2022 04:56 PM (2cfUo)

278 The Stand was okay as originally published. After King got famous and un-edited it, it became a steaming, throbbing, stinking pile.

Posted by: setnaffa at July 21, 2022 04:56 PM (ud6pL)

279 When did Stephen King turn into an old lesbian?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2022 04:56 PM (m7R0k)

280 So Stephen King's advice on story, writing, publishing, etc. might be valuable.

I confess, it is. And he stresses two key points.

1. ABW. Always be writing. Get the words on the pages that are blank.
2. Do not watch TV. Throw your TV through the window and leave the smashed window unrepaired so you remember that you threw your TV through it.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 21, 2022 04:57 PM (+R5dc)

281 Horror and Fantasy SciFi not what I read so I only know Correia from comments here and did not know about his Monster Hunter series. So yeah he is the anti - Stephen King .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (epFyj)
---
The whole point of the Monster Hunter series is to take B-movie plots/monsters and then make the heroes reasonably intelligent and extremely well armed. Of course, the amount of punishment required to put down the monsters is off the charts, but MHI is up to the challenge! When in doubt...MORE GUNS!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:57 PM (K5n5d)

282 BB King > chicken a la king > Stephen King

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (m7R0k)

283 The Stand was okay as originally published. After King got famous and un-edited it, it became a steaming, throbbing, stinking pile.
Posted by: setnaffa

You're being a tad vague here. What are you trying to say?

Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (cY9wR)

284 If Senile Joe is just suffering mild symptoms why don't they just say he's not feeling well?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 04:55 PM (VdGjU)
++++
The gravity of the office and of the illness.

"Not feeling well" is four syllables and two words are monosyllabic.
"Experiencing mild symptoms" is eight syllables, and only one word is monosyllabic.

COVID is serious business, and so is presidentin'. It calls for longer words of greater complexity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (WWh8n)

285 You know the funny thing, while the were wishing for Trump to die everyone wondered about if Trump was even well enough to be presidentin while he had the 'Rona. No one cares about Joe because everyone knows he wasn't running things to begin with.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (T/vhV)

286 I would not say Seinfeld is milquetoast. His subtlety might confuse people into thinking so. Not that there is anything wrong with that..,

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (P1Q45)

287 I liked MHI but the first book was SOOOO LONGGG and I am not eager to read another one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (Ivdso)

288 278 The Stand was okay as originally published. After King got famous and un-edited it, it became a steaming, throbbing, stinking pile.
Posted by: setnaffa at July 21, 2022 04:56 PM (ud6pL)

The Stand tv movie was good until they got to the town/village. Then it got weird. But I like apocalyptica.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (dNqv+)

289 Saying that Larry Correia is "pretty conservative" is like saying water is "pretty wet."

I've read his blog a bit and he's unleashed both barrels numerous times at Lefties so cruelly ace is a kind and cuddly bunny rabbit by comparison. It's awesome.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:51 PM (K5n5d)

I have met the man. He is incredibly big. And incredibly Funny. Serious gun nut. He was so happy to announce that his wife has given him permission to buy his own tank. He has a 1,000 yard(?) range at his new home he proudly calls Yard Moose Mountain.

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (Z32m1)

290 58 Alvin, with help from the Chipmunks, invites Stephen King to hit Alvin with his best shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTW-VzXJEU

Posted by: Never underestimate Joe's ability at July 21, 2022 04:25 PM (e/gaB)

----
Hey that's my line!

Posted by: Pat Benatar at July 21, 2022 04:59 PM (qfLjt)

291 I would not say Seinfeld is milquetoast. His subtlety might confuse people into thinking so. Not that there is anything wrong with that..,
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (P1Q45)
++++
I'll take your word for it. I admit I have not seen much of his work. I mostly know the bits that are really famous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:59 PM (WWh8n)

292 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:

I think she's more concerned with how her attractive face and callipygianess (is that a word?) appears on camera and how much money she'll make from the shot. Stephen King-pfft.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 04:59 PM (PrR4G)

293 Did king ever write anything comedic?

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2022 04:59 PM (P1Q45)

294 4 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n

I was wondering what callipygian looked like. Looks pretty damn good

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:59 PM (Qhnrt)

295 264 The gaslighting is part of the kink.
Posted by: blaster at July 21, 2022 04:54 PM (6TxNR)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 04:59 PM (XvPQV)

296 287 I liked MHI but the first book was SOOOO LONGGG and I am not eager to read another one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (Ivdso)

Alpha is quite good. Focus on Harbinger. His stuff can be... uneven imo. But what do I know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:00 PM (dNqv+)

297 If you read the Bannon case carefully, you realize that he has a legitimate beef - the Congressional subpoena must be served by a legitimate someone that my issue such a subpoena - and it's pretty clear that the j6 committee is not that - otherwise, Merrick Garland would have already charged Trump with murder at their behest, at the very least.

No, this is complicated and thus over the head of any lefty media type writing doofus 'make a wish' articles over at ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC or CNN. No one is going to jail or getting raped in solitary, or the working on a roadside Louisianan chain gang as the courts sorts out compliance issues that will be used as precedent for some time.

Posted by: Boswell at July 21, 2022 05:00 PM (+Cgut)

298 I liked MHI but the first book was SOOOO LONGGG and I am not eager to read another one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 04:58 PM (Ivdso)
---
They get quite a bit shorter and more to the point as the series progresses. The first one is over 700 pages long (paperback) but then the next one is 100 pages less and by book seven, it's down to just over 400 or so.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:00 PM (K5n5d)

299 Did king ever write anything comedic?
Posted by: runner

I think that most of his 'product' is a joke; that count?

Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 05:00 PM (cY9wR)

300 Alpha is quite good. Focus on Harbinger. His stuff can be... uneven imo. But what do I know.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:00 PM (dNqv+)
++++
Per the post, you know that King's a rumble strip - so that's at least two things by my count!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 05:01 PM (WWh8n)

301 Amazing how much of the viral quotes and info about Joe lately has been "humanizing". Almost coincidental one would say.

We've recently learned he's Irish. He had an aneurysm. He had skin cancer. He has covid. He cares about the environment enough to lie about it. So many things.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2022 05:01 PM (Fg7qv)

302 I think saw it on last Bad Blue solar panel junk yard with piles of panels

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2022 05:02 PM (2JoB8)

303 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 04:57 PM (K5n5d)

That's why I assume Stephen Hunter is conservative because he's a big gun guy.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 05:02 PM (epFyj)

304 They get quite a bit shorter and more to the point as the series progresses. The first one is over 700 pages long (paperback) but then the next one is 100 pages less and by book seven, it's down to just over 400 or so.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:00 PM (K5n5d)

I think he more and more wanted to focus on fun. It also makes sense that the first would be the longest because I would assume that that is the book that writers spend the most time on, their first one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:02 PM (dNqv+)

305 Catcher of the Pie?
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every

I laughed out loud 👏

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 05:03 PM (tQL7r)

306 Food King > Steven King

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 21, 2022 05:03 PM (R/m4+)

307 John Ringo is another who is pretty open. The Troy books are great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:03 PM (dNqv+)

308 Uh, I have Covid. *cough, cough*. I called the mayor of Scranton.

-Steven King

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:04 PM (KNJGg)

309 Congress covers its self with hilarity regarding guns again. Its not quite the classic that Chainsaw Bayonet was but its pretty daffy

"When attached here, it turns this weapon into an automatic weapon. It becomes a bump stock, and so it will allow that to essentially be fired like an automatic weapon. That's the danger."
--Rep Cicilline

https://tinyurl.com/36zf75ec

Another congressman tries to correct him and he just triples down on the ignorant and stupid

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:04 PM (Ivdso)

310 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

--------

Out: I'm an ass man.
In: I'm a callipygian man.

/Too bad "Callipygian Man" won't fit on a vanity license plate

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 21, 2022 05:04 PM (FRbcJ)

311 >>>I think he more and more wanted to focus on fun. It also makes sense that the first would be the longest because I would assume that that is the book that writers spend the most time on, their first one.

It's not that they have less content. They get better at editing as the stories unfold.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 21, 2022 05:04 PM (T/vhV)

312 Stefan King always was a lesbian

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2022 05:04 PM (2JoB8)

313 the nation's politics have devolved into a

whatever they like, I don't like

and whatever I like, they don't like

usually, this is grounds for divorce

Posted by: Predictit at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM (us2H3)

314 What is the world for women who are a step up from callypigian?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM (VdGjU)

315 Misery was a good movie.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 04:46 PM (epFyj)

Dirty Birdie !

Kathy Bates was insane in that movie

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM (M+Lyo)

316 And then there is Michael Z Williamson.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM (xhaym)

317 Missed last thread. Stupid work.

What was the ostensible reason for Zelensky (who is the greatest man since Jesus, or Carrot Top, whatever) swinging the axe on his Cabinet?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (Zhwz2)

318 It's not that they have less content. They get better at editing as the stories unfold.
Posted by: mikethemoose at July 21, 2022 05:04 PM (T/vhV)

Better way of putting it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (dNqv+)

319 The J6 committee is not a legitimate subpoena authority

Yeah, but, they are doing important work. So you must comply.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (KNJGg)

320 Burger King > Steven King

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (M+Lyo)

321 I would assume that that is the book that writers spend the most time on, their first one.

Usually its the opposite; artists are more tight because editors are more careful with them and help them pare back, but as time goes on their books get bigger and bigger (see the Harry Potter books, or Sword of Truth).

In Correia's case, he was doing a lot of world building so he added a lot in. I didn't feel like there was much fluff or much that he could cut out, but it probably should have been two books.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (Ivdso)

322 "Noted Highway Rumble Strip Steven King."

I come for the cruelty. I stay for the cruelty.

Posted by: Valiant at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (cy2xC)

323 "Another congressman tries to correct him and he just triples down on the ignorant and stupid"

Did he bring up the vaporizing of bodies?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (1n+EO)

324 Jerry Seinfeld has morphed into a Grumpy Old Man in all the best ways. I can't say he's a moron but he has no patience for Wokeness or Political Correctness.

------
I think he donated quite a bit of money to Governor Hochul in New York.
Sounds like a lefty to me.

Posted by: Glenn John at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (M3hSG)

325 Stand by Me was another Stephen King story. God, Jerry O'Connell was fat in that movie.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (OgrpQ)

326 What is the world for women who are a step up from callypigian?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM (VdGjU)

Ghettoass

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (M+Lyo)

327 Stacey Abrams has an ass that could eat Atlanta. Is that callypigian?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (VdGjU)

328 What is the world for women who are a step up from callypigian?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM

Abramsian.

Posted by: Stacey at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (a3Q+t)

329 Usually its the opposite; artists are more tight because editors are more careful with them and help them pare back, but as time goes on their books get bigger and bigger (see the Harry Potter books, or Sword of Truth).

In Correia's case, he was doing a lot of world building so he added a lot in. I didn't feel like there was much fluff or much that he could cut out, but it probably should have been two books.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:06 PM (Ivdso)

Sword of Truth was a good book, then it just kept going. Plus he engaged in the trope that I hate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (dNqv+)

330 The J6 committee is not a legitimate subpoena authority

Correct, according to congressional rules, they are not a legitimate committee and you can legally blow them off, but they can really make you suffer while you fight to prove that in court.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (Ivdso)

331 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

looks like a nasty rash on the inside of her thigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (anj39)

332 "Noted Highway Rumble Strip Steven King."

I come for the cruelty. I stay for the cruelty.
Posted by: Valiant

And a cut above "The Maine Event".

SWIDT?

Posted by: zombie Edgar Allen Poe at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (cY9wR)

333 The boss guy in the first Incredibles movie looks like Stephen King. The guy voiced by Wallace Shawn.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (m0zqP)

334 Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
Follow
Democrats trying to figure out the difference between a bump stock and an arm brace. They want to ban both but they don’t even know the difference.

I don't know. *dons old country accent* Too much too much! Just ban everything. Ban it all.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:09 PM (KNJGg)

335 Sword of Truth was a good book, then it just kept going.

The novelette he did as a prequel to Sword of Truth was good too. The second book was not as good and I just passed on the others. I could use them to press wildflowers, I guess.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:09 PM (Ivdso)

336 333 The boss guy in the first Incredibles movie looks like Stephen King. The guy voiced by Wallace Shawn.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (m0zqP)

Good catch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:09 PM (dNqv+)

337 What is the world for women who are a step up from callypigian?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:05 PM (VdGjU)
++++
Steatopygian

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 05:09 PM (WWh8n)

338 333 The boss guy in the first Incredibles movie looks like Stephen King. The guy voiced by Wallace Shawn.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (m0zqP)

Always figured that was deliberate as some kind of inside joke.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (906pl)

339 The bad news: Russian Olympic champion and friends are injured in a helicopter crash.

The worse news: Then they were attacked and eaten by bears.

https://bit.ly/3IWrsd2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (FVME7)

340 >>>Kathy Bates was insane in that movie

Kathy took a character I had a difficult time realistically envisioning, and made her very real and very scary. She made that movie. It was an amazing acting job. She well deserved her best actress award for that one.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (T/vhV)

341 John Ringo is another who is pretty open. The Troy books are great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:03 PM (dNqv+)

I really, really miss the early 2000's when it was literally the John Ringo book of the month club. If he did not have a Hardcover book out, there was a trade paperback (large sized paperback), or a mass market paperback John Ringo book issued almost every month.

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (Z32m1)

342 I mean, if we, a bunch of Harvard Grad congressmen don't understand how guns work, how can some bumpkin from Scranton?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (KNJGg)

343 The novelette he did as a prequel to Sword of Truth was good too. The second book was not as good and I just passed on the others. I could use them to press wildflowers, I guess.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:09 PM (Ivdso)

I read up to... 3? Then dropped the whole thing. I cannot stand the rape trope- and he indulged in it a LOT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (dNqv+)

344 The worse news: Then they were attacked and eaten by bears.

Yeah but if you gotta go, that's a pretty badass way to die. Put that on the tombstone: Eaten By Bears

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:11 PM (Ivdso)

345 Watered garden and filled bird bath. No idea how many birds found it today.

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (2JoB8)

346 I really, really miss the early 2000's when it was literally the John Ringo book of the month club. If he did not have a Hardcover book out, there was a trade paperback (large sized paperback), or a mass market paperback John Ringo book issued almost every month.
Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (Z32m1)

He seems to be one who completely follows the muse. He will write about what he is interested in. Hell, he did a couple books in the MHI universe (with Corriea's permission.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (dNqv+)

347 looks like a nasty rash on the inside of her thigh.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (

Would you be prepared to apply cream?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (VdGjU)

348 Tucker is probably gonna be lit tonight

Posted by: REDACTED at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (us2H3)

349 Steven King was good in the role of "Mamma" in Throw Mama From the Train.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (KNJGg)

350 If you read the Bannon case carefully, you realize that he has a legitimate beef - the Congressional subpoena must be served by a legitimate someone that my issue such a subpoena - and it's pretty clear that the j6 committee is not that - otherwise, Merrick Garland would have already charged Trump with murder at their behest, at the very least.

No, this is complicated and thus over the head of any lefty media type writing doofus 'make a wish' articles over at ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC or CNN. No one is going to jail or getting raped in solitary, or the working on a roadside Louisianan chain gang as the courts sorts out compliance issues that will be used as precedent for some time

Yeah, isn't that the point Robert Barnes made on Viva last night? Or maybe it was Julie Kelly. I get those 2 mixed up all the time.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (tQL7r)

351 Steven King, blows moose dick in Maine. The two legged kind. At the moose lodge.

$2.

Same as in town.

Posted by: Archer at July 21, 2022 05:13 PM (gmo/4)

352 The bad news: Russian Olympic champion and friends are injured in a helicopter crash.

The worse news: Then they were attacked and eaten by bears.

Ukraine to be blamed for poking the bears in 3,2,1....

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:13 PM (cY9wR)

353 Yeah, isn't that the point Robert Barnes made on Viva last night? Or maybe it was Julie Kelly. I get those 2 mixed up all the time.
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (tQL7r)

Ouch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:13 PM (dNqv+)

354 God, Jerry O'Connell was fat in that movie.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 05:07 PM (OgrpQ)

🎵 You'll never guess my secret identity🎵

Posted by: was this only a Canadian thing? at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (h5TKJ)

355 The Jim Butcher urban fantasy series (Dresden Files) are another example of the growing book phenomenon. They each get longer and longer and more involved and bloated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (Ivdso)

356 looks like a nasty rash on the inside of her thigh.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (

Would you be prepared to apply cream?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (VdGjU)

I don't know...she probably scratches more in the morning than I do.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (anj39)

357 He seems to be one who completely follows the muse. He will write about what he is interested in. Hell, he did a couple books in the MHI universe (with Corriea's permission.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (dNqv+)
---
I would *love* to see a crossover series between Correia's MHI universe, Butcher's Dresdenverse, and F. Paul Wilson's Adversary-verse. All three main storylines are compatible with a little bit of work...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (K5n5d)

358 Stacey Abrams has an ass that could eat Atlanta. Is that callypigian?

No; The word means well shaped buttocks. It doesn't mean "fat backside". I'm sure we'll get many more pictures of attractive a$$ so you'll know what it means.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (PrR4G)

359 Steven King was good in the role of "Mamma" in Throw Mama From the Train.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:12 PM (KNJGg)

You did not go there!

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 05:15 PM (tQL7r)

360 Stacey Abrams has an ass that could eat Atlanta. Is that callypigian?

Sounds like a 1950s horror movie. Ass that could eat Atlanta.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:15 PM (KNJGg)

361 Very few highway rumble strips are considered noteworthy.
So that's something.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2022 05:16 PM (s9AtY)

362 Lancaster CA has a notable rumble strip. Well, they tried.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:16 PM (KNJGg)

363 tacey Abrams has an ass that could eat Atlanta. Is that callypigian?

Sounds like a 1950s horror movie. Ass that could eat Atlanta.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I made my kids watch the 1952 George Pal version of War of the Worlds.

My daughter thought that it was "grim".

Now to show them how Independence Day ripped it off.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (cY9wR)

364 Stacey Abrams has an ass that could eat Atlanta. Is that callypigian?

Sounds like a 1950s horror movie. Ass that could eat Atlanta.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2022 05:15 PM (KNJGg)

An American International Production- Starring John Agar

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (OgrpQ)

365 I would *love* to see a crossover series between Correia's MHI universe, Butcher's Dresdenverse, and F. Paul Wilson's Adversary-verse. All three main storylines are compatible with a little bit of work...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (K5n5d)

Look up F Paul Wilson. Dear Lord, kindle prices have gotten insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (dNqv+)

366 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

looks like a nasty rash on the inside of her thigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (anj39)

She will need floundercare.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (U3uv2)

367 If you pay 4.5 K to see Bruce Springsteen in Concert, you are some type of secret CIA Weapons Grade Retard.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (EM4Pb)

368 The Jim Butcher urban fantasy series (Dresden Files) are another example of the growing book phenomenon. They each get longer and longer and more involved and bloated.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:14 PM (Ivdso)
---
The absolute *king* of novel bloat is Tad Williams. By his own admission, he is physically incapable of writing a trilogy. He wrote THREE series that had to be extended to a quadrilogy because he couldn't wrap up the storylines in the last novel. To Green Angel Tower, the last book in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, was split into two books for the paperback editions. But he's talented enough to make it work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (K5n5d)

369 He's using a much more robust photo of himself for his profile picture.

Posted by: Adrienne at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (gegMK)

370 A paperback is now $21!!!!!!!????!?!?!

Holy crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (dNqv+)

371 This callipygian blonde is more amused by King's flat denial than at the trolling effort itself:
https://is.gd/ePsCP6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2022 04:50 PM (WWh8n)

looks like a nasty rash on the inside of her thigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (anj3

Rug burn

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (epFyj)

372 No; The word means well shaped buttocks. It doesn't mean "fat backside". I'm sure we'll get many more pictures of attractive a$$ so you'll know what it means.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I believe we have a foretelling of the very near future here.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (tQL7r)

373 Now to show them how Independence Day ripped it off.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (cY9wR)

Heck, what DIDN'T ID4 rip off?

That said, watched it recently and still enjoy it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (906pl)

374 He's got the right (meaning leftist stooge) so there will be no cancelling of him. Pieces of shit. In a somewhat related note, First Ave. In Minniehopeless (where Prince cut his teeth) cancelled his show because woke. Fuck these actual Nazi's.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (GwxCX)

375 Now to show them how Independence Day ripped it off.

ID was basically a retelling of War of the Worlds, although from the perspective of the people fighting instead of the people just trying to run and survive. The Tom Cruise film got attacked for not being a big action film or a disaster movie but it was really close to the book: the story of a normal person just trying to survive while overpowered aliens stomp all over the earth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (Ivdso)

376 Massie to the retarded congressman: "The internet is going to help you out in about 5 minutes."

I laughed.

Posted by: Fool Otto at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (DB16e)

377 I like some of King's novels. Sue me.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 21, 2022 04:24 PM (Qhnrt)

He is (was?) a sometimes great storyteller, but his endings are often fucked up. For example, "Pet Sematary" really drew me in, but the ending was too much. "The Dead Zone" was very good.

As for movies from his books, Shawshank Redemption was very well done, as was The Green Mile.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (Mzdiz)

378 Wish that van driver had been better at handling a moving vehicle.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 21, 2022 04:17 PM (2oHWb)

He should have backed up.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (Gcdtg)

379 >>The Jim Butcher urban fantasy series (Dresden Files) are another example of the growing book phenomenon. They each get longer and longer and more involved and bloated.

Have you read Book 1 of the Cinder Tower series?

I am anxiously awaiting the next one.

And, at least Butcher is still feeding us books.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (EM4Pb)

380 King Harv >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stephen King

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (WmGrA)

381 A paperback is now $21!!!!!!!????!?!?!

Holy crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (dNqv+)

Ya, there has been a paper shortage for almost two years now. Stupid

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (OgrpQ)

382 First dungeons and dragons trailer

https://tinyurl.com/3cmahury

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

383 I'm sure we'll get many more pictures of attractive a$$ so you'll know what it means.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I believe we have a foretelling of the very near future here.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 21, 2022 05:18 PM (tQL7r)

Fen commands it.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (U3uv2)

384 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Teachers claims entire class of second grade students changed their pronouns and it's being kept a secret from "unsafe" adults

https://tinyurl.com/bdhcdytk

Posted by: redridinghood at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (NpAcC)

385 The J6 committee is not a legitimate subpoena authority

Correct, according to congressional rules, they are not a legitimate committee and you can legally blow them off, but they can really make you suffer while you fight to prove that in court.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (Ivdso)

The lower federal courts will defer to Congress on all questions about the legality of actions by Congress.

No way will any district court judge say that a committee that SHALL have 13 members, including 5 appointed by the Minority Leader is illegal because it only has 8 Democrats and two "republicans" appointed by the Democrat Majority Leader, even if it is illegally constituted. Lower Courts will defer to the other Branch of the Government, Congress in all things Congressional.

Bannon will have to fight this all the way to SCOTUS to even have a chance someone MIGHT say the J6 Committe of 10 people, including 2 Democrat appointed quisling republicans is not the SHALL BE 13 including 5 APPOINTED by the Minority Leader as stated in the Resolution.

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (Z32m1)

386 Look up F Paul Wilson. Dear Lord, kindle prices have gotten insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:17 PM (dNqv+)
---
Dang. Those are pretty pricey. Fortunately, I already "own" most of the Repairman Jack series on Kindle, and I have the entire series in hardcover/paperback...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (K5n5d)

387 John Ringo is another who is pretty open. The Troy books are great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:03 PM (dNqv+)

I really, really miss the early 2000's when it was literally the John Ringo book of the month club. If he did not have a Hardcover book out, there was a trade paperback (large sized paperback), or a mass market paperback John Ringo book issued almost every month.
Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 05:10 PM (Z32m1)

I quit reading Johnny Ringo when his sexual fantasies became plot points.

His first 3 Posleen War books are still good, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (XvPQV)

388 330 The J6 committee is not a legitimate subpoena authority

Correct, according to congressional rules, they are not a legitimate committee and you can legally blow them off, but they can really make you suffer while you fight to prove that in court.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:08 PM (Ivdso)

Worse? The Congress has Subpoena authority in ONLY two cases... they need to ask questions to fashion legislation, or Government Oversite.

They are not fashioning legislation, and they are not investigating actual government people.... Bannon was not in government service Jan 6 at all.

They are trying to enforce Law, which is the job of the Executive Branch, AND trying to find Guilt, the job of the Judicial Branch.

Courts should have already shut this show down, but won't.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (oHd/0)

389 Still waiting on the next book in the Son of the Black Sword series, too.

C'mon Correia.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (EM4Pb)

390 Now to show them how Independence Day ripped it off.

ID was basically a retelling of War of the Worlds, although from the perspective of the people fighting instead of the people just trying to run and survive. The Tom Cruise film got attacked for not being a big action film or a disaster movie but it was really close to the book: the story of a normal person just trying to survive while overpowered aliens stomp all over the earth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

True.

But the much cheaper version did a much better version of imparting the idea that humanity was losing. And di so with a miniscule budget, 1952 era special effects, the magic of Chesley Bonestall and the recent specter of world war.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (cY9wR)

391 Sorry, but when the first thing the podcast hosts says is "pet parents" and give them CBD treats, I turn it off.

You own a dog, dude.

Posted by: The_Hoser at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (7+4Wi)

392 My audiobooks are $12 each. They usually have great narrators, and some of them have a full cast. The Three Musketeers cast have voices like honey.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (44ww/)

393 4.5K to listen to a washed up hack screeching like he's passing a kidney stone. No thanks. I pass right by his channel on Sirrus. 4.5K but he's for the common man dontchya know!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (GwxCX)

394 I'm sure we'll get many more pictures of attractive a$$ so you'll know what it means.

and so it begins..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2022 05:22 PM (Gcdtg)

395 The bad news: Russian Olympic champion and friends are injured in a helicopter crash.

The worse news: Then they were attacked and eaten by bears.

=====

When nature stops trying to kill me, I'll take better care of it.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 21, 2022 05:22 PM (vORT+)

396 Have you read Book 1 of the Cinder Tower series?

I am anxiously awaiting the next one.

And, at least Butcher is still feeding us books.
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (EM4Pb)
---
Yes. It's crazy awesome (as you would expect from the guy who wrote the Codex Alera series). Can't wait. Will he wrap up Dresden Files first, though?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:22 PM (K5n5d)

397 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:22 PM (dNqv+)

398 Fen commands it.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (U3uv2)

I command nothing here, but perhaps Joe likes to troll me in which case we'll get many more attractive a$$es on here. I really think there ought to be a separate weekend thread for T&A

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2022 05:22 PM (PrR4G)

399 But the much cheaper version did a much better version of imparting the idea that humanity was losing. And di so with a miniscule budget, 1952 era special effects, the magic of Chesley Bonestall and the recent specter of world war.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (cY9wR)

and it had the Flying Wing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2022 05:23 PM (Gcdtg)

400 367 If you pay 4.5 K to see Bruce Springsteen in Concert, you are some type of secret CIA Weapons Grade Retard.
Posted by: garrett

I can think of no better punishment for anyone that stupid.
(I used to say the same about people who bought Teslas)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 21, 2022 05:23 PM (Tq0rn)

401 >>Will he wrap up Dresden Files first, though?

Supposed to be a 2nd Cinder Towers and another Dresden this year.

But who knows?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2022 05:23 PM (EM4Pb)

402 Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (Z32m1)

One lower court already ruled that 'Shall' now means 'May'.... vice Must.

Humpty Dumpty is now a Judge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2022 05:23 PM (oHd/0)

403 384 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Teachers claims entire class of second grade students changed their pronouns and it's being kept a secret from "unsafe" adults

https://tinyurl.com/bdhcdytk
Posted by: redridinghood at July 21, 2022 05:20 PM (NpAcC)

They could teach them the Nazi salute too, and the kids would do it.

Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2022 05:23 PM (Ti+Tv)

404 Hmmm..."well shaped buttocks" thread. Has possibilities

Posted by: Wannabe COB at July 21, 2022 05:23 PM (s9AtY)

405 Nood Eric Adams and Muriel Bowser

Posted by: rd at July 21, 2022 05:24 PM (Z32m1)

406 But the much cheaper version did a much better version of imparting the idea that humanity was losing. And di so with a miniscule budget, 1952 era special effects, the magic of Chesley Bonestall and the recent specter of world war.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:21 PM (cY9wR)

and it had the Flying Wing.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I nearly forgot that!

Pal used films taken by Northrop corporation during its test flights. That's how tight his budget was.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2022 05:24 PM (cY9wR)

407 I don't so much mind how much books cost as how big publishers charge paperback prices for their ebooks. Which cost them like 8 bucks to set up. Once ou have the book written, edited, and published, ebooks are ALL PROFIT. I mean you have to pay the site that offers them, but you don't need to charge 21 bucks an ebook.

As for the D&D movie trailer... um well lets hope the plotting is better than the cutesy jokester dialog. Good to see them leaning heavily on the monster mythos at least. They managed to get the non-white super ass kicking female in there, but at least its fantasy so you can believe a girl could do that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:25 PM (Ivdso)

408 I read the HG Welles version as a kid. There was a 1897 nutball similar to Tim Robbins in the Spielberg movie.

He spelled out victory, but it was easy to see that he had worked his way backwards from the solution to each unlikely development. But he also outlined a story more exciting than the one I was reading.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 21, 2022 05:25 PM (44ww/)

409 Will he wrap up Dresden Files first, though?

He's kind of written himself into a corner, I don't know if he CAN do a satisfactory ending.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 21, 2022 05:26 PM (Ivdso)

410 Fun: We Hate Movies' rip on the awful movie Dreamcatcher -- made from one of Steven King's most wretchedly stupid, first-draft turd novels -- is a hell of a lot of fun.

Whelp, 20 minutes in and I gotta say: Ace's idea of fun is not mine.

Perhaps I will listen to the rest after I get stinking drunk.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at July 21, 2022 05:26 PM (B9huV)

411 I dunno, Fenelon, there may be too many asses on the weekend threads as it is

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2022 05:28 PM (xhaym)

412 4.5K to listen to a washed up hack screeching like he's passing a kidney stone. No thanks. I pass right by his channel on Sirrus. 4.5K but he's for the common man dontchya know!
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 21, 2022 05:

Are you serious about that ticket price?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:29 PM (VdGjU)

413 What is wrong with admitting you don't know everything? I think he wants to appear intelligent and can't admit he doesn't know something when I think it's a sign of intelligence to admit what you don't know.

The ego on some people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2022 05:29 PM (wRauk)

414 I wouldn't pay $42 for a Springsteen concert.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 21, 2022 05:34 PM (VdGjU)

415 307 John Ringo is another who is pretty open. The Troy books are great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:03 PM (dNqv+)

---

Paul George is open, too. Get him the rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xnnHQJrvSA

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 21, 2022 05:42 PM (+R5dc)

416 396 Have you read Book 1 of the Cinder Tower series?

I am anxiously awaiting the next one.

And, at least Butcher is still feeding us books.
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2022 05:19 PM (EM4Pb)
---
Yes. It's crazy awesome (as you would expect from the guy who wrote the Codex Alera series). Can't wait. Will he wrap up Dresden Files first, though?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2022 05:22 PM (K5n5d)

Cinder Spires was quite good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 21, 2022 05:52 PM (dNqv+)

417 Libs of TikTok@libsoftikto
Teachers claims entire class of second grade students changed their pronouns and it’s being kept a secret from "unsafe" adults

-
Damn parents think that they're their kids!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 21, 2022 06:01 PM (FVME7)

418 I get paid more than $85 every hour for working on the web. I found out about this activity 3 months prior and subsequent to joining this I have earned effectively $15k from this without having internet working abilities .
That is what I do... http://www.salarycash1.com

Posted by: Sarah at July 22, 2022 12:33 AM (/OHDH)

419 Who is "Steven King"? Some kin of the famous writer "Stephen King"?

Posted by: Frank at July 22, 2022 06:45 AM (rba6n)

Processing 0.04, elapsed 0.0492 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0183 seconds, 428 records returned.
Page size 207 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.